Manasa Andhye

As an Associate Engineering Manager with a strong foundation in Quality Assurance, I currently lead a cross-functional team comprising QA engineers, developers, and business analysts. My role bridges technical execution with strategic alignment, ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions for our CRM platform. With hands-on experience in automation testing using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and frameworks driven by data and properties files, I bring both deep technical understanding and leadership capabilities. I am passionate about building reusable test frameworks, optimizing release cycles, and driving continuous improvement across engineering practices. Key skills: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven Data-driven & keyword-driven automation frameworks CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git) Agile methodologies (Scrum, Sprint planning & tracking) Defect management & test reporting (JIRA, Azure DevOps) Cross-functional team leadership Requirement analysis & stakeholder collaboration I focus on fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and collaboration—empowering teams to innovate while meeting delivery goals. Always open to learning and mentoring, I’m committed to engineering excellence and impactful results.

Test Strategy and Planning Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, and scripts to ensure comprehensive test coverage across all applications. Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to understand requirements and define acceptance criteria. Manual Testing Conduct functional, exploratory, and regression testing for new features and enhancements. Identify, report, and track bugs to closure using appropriate tools (e.g., Azure DevOps). Automation Testing Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts using Selenium, TestNG, or similar frameworks. Execute automation tests for web applications, APIs, and performance testing scenarios. API Testing Test RESTful APIs to ensure proper integration and functionality. Validate requests, responses, and data consistency between frontend and backend systems. Performance Testing Conduct load and performance testing using tools like JMeter or similar. Analyze bottlenecks and provide recommendations for optimization. Adaptability and Multitasking Handle multiple priorities, from feature testing to production bug triaging, in a fast-paced startup environment. Take ownership of quality for projects from inception to release, ensuring accountability and high standards.

Working in complete Agile environment and involved in all Sprint related Ceremonies since project is driven by Agile Methodology. Understanding the functional Requirements and designing manual web and API test cases. Supporting team with automation and manual testing. Test Case automation using selenium when the functionality is stabilized. Reporting defects using Jira. Participated in Sprint review meetings. Involved in (Daily/weekly) review and status Meetings with the team. Organized test suites both Smoke and regression testing. Performing daily automation executions.